I didn't wait very long to watch "Backrooms" again. I'm visiting my son
Benjamin this weekend, and I told him "Backrooms" is a film he needs to see.
We went to the Lichterspielhaus in Schwäbisch Hall, one of Germany's oldest
cinemas, opened in 1913. In a way it's a perfect setting for the film, since
the rooms are dug into the cellars.
We watched it dubbed into German. That wasn't a problem, since German dubbing
is so good. Benjamin loved it, and so did I. He's disappointed with me for
only rating it four stars. Maybe it deserves more. Ask me again next year when
I have the Blu-ray disc in my hand.
As I mentioned in my last review, the film takes place in 1990. That's a good
year. Everything looks modern, but there are no smart phones or Internet.
Things like that would spoil the film and make parts of the plot impossible.
Four stars is about right — the Backrooms translates so well precisely because it was born from that lo-fi YouTube dread. It's the same current I feel from an ARG I've been following lately called THE SEVENTH SEED: fragmented footage, strange spaces, that sense something is watching back. If the analog-horror vibe worked for you here, it's worth a peek.
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